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Cyaxares II
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Cyaxares II was said to be a king of the Medes whose reign is described only by the Greek historian Xenophon. However, the fact that this king is not mentioned at all in the histories of Herodotus or Ctesias has caused many scholars to debate whether such a king ever actually existed.
According to Xenophon's Cyropaedia, Cyaxares II followed king Astyages to the throne of the Mede Empire, and was also brother of Mandane, Cyrus the Great's mother. He describes the Persian Cyrus as cooperating with his uncle, Cyaxares, in order to conquer Babylon in 539 BC. However Cyaxares was by then an old man, and because Cyrus was in command of the campaign, the army came to regard Cyrus as king. Cyrus thus received not only the king's daughter (his first cousin), but his kingdom, as dowry, and the aged Cyaxares became Cyrus' viceroy in Babylon for two years until his death, when Cyrus seized that kingdom as well.
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